sem inflação não há guerra

The American Conservative -- Inflating War  (theamericanconservative.com)

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“One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.”

As I see things, the truly vital issues are quite simple

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

- Highlight Loc. 1967-69  | Added on Friday, April 06, 2012, 08:06 PM

As I see things, the truly vital issues are quite simple. In my judgment the modern economists have, with laudable mathematical erudition, erected an imposing and analytically rigorous framework upon an inadequate foundation in respect of conceptual clarity.

if the United States ever developed into a totalitarian state we ould not know it.

Review: Judicial? Or Unjudicious?  (lewrockwell.com)

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"Dr. Cornellius Cotter, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, appeared before a special Senate committee in April, 1973. He remarked: “You know, Senator Mathias, it has been said—and, I think wisely so—that if the United States ever developed into a totalitarian state we ould not know it. We would not know that it had happened. It would be all so gradual, the ritualism would all be retained as a facade to disguise what had happened. Most people in the United States, in official position, would continue to do the sorts of things that they are doing now. The changes would have all been so subtle although so fundamental that people generally would be unaware.”

“nossa! vamos entrar nessa feira, olha só como tá tudo bonito, luminoso...”

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 2501-5  | Added on Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 09:08 PM

tomamos um doce que só bateu quando a gente tava saindo de manhã. eu e o Sérgio num passeio matutino. cada um com mais cara de vampiro que o outro. os prédios da Brigadeiro se inclinavam pra cima da gente, parecia que São Paulo ia nos engolir. e o cara: “nossa! vamos entrar nessa feira, olha só como tá tudo bonito, luminoso...” que saco, tive que arrastar o cara dali debaixo do viaduto da Treze de Maio, onde rola a feira. ele ficava perguntando pra japonesa: “¿esse pimentão é de verdade?”

Speed Hashing

Speed Hashing  (codinghorror.com)

- Highlight Loc. 30-31  | Added on Friday, April 06, 2012, 01:19 PM

The good news is that hashing algorithms (assuming you didn't roll your own, God forbid) were designed by professional mathematicians and cryptographers who knew what they were doing.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data  (backchannel.org)

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We index data in these entities by storing indexes in separate MySQL tables. If we want to index three properties in each entity, we will have three MySQL tables - one for each index. If we want to stop using an index, we stop writing to that table from our code and, optionally, drop the table from MySQL. If we want a new index, we make a new MySQL table for that index and run a process to asynchronously populate the index without disrupting our live service.

This is the origin of the condition that macro-economists so inappropriately call “increasingly deficient aggregate effective demand.”

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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To recapitulate, it is through restraints on the coordinative process that the source of demands can come to be cumulatively constrained. This is the origin of the condition that macro-economists so inappropriately call “increasingly deficient aggregate effective demand.” Through such constraints, employment outlets remain available only at continuously falling real remuneration. The process can be reversed by unemployed (or sub-optimally employed) persons accepting jobs at labor costs which are related to current prospects of yields.

a wage-rate of nil

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

- Highlight Loc. 1789-91  | Added on Friday, March 30, 2012, 10:29 AM

Of course the restoration of employment is compatible “with the real wage-rate unchanged,” in the sense of the average wage-rate, provided unemployed workers are reckoned in the averages as having a wage-rate of nil.

A partir do momento em que uma espécie animal, por mutação repentina e espontânea, dá à luz seres volitivos...

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 2132-33  | Added on Friday, March 30, 2012, 03:55 AM

A partir do momento em que uma espécie animal, por mutação repentina e espontânea, dá à luz seres volitivos, o planeta recebe o status de planeta habitado, sendo designado, para ele, um Príncipe Planetário,

¿Quiénes inventaron a Tlön?

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 1936-37  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 08:45 PM

E então, sem deixar de lembrar que no latim inventar e descobrir são sinônimos, Borges indaga: “¿Quiénes inventaron a Tlön?”

if voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

Democracy and Violence  (lewrockwell.com)

- Highlight Loc. 39-40  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 01:09 PM

In the words of Emma Goldman, "if voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal."

todos os códigos morais só podem ser compreendidos a partir da moralidade absoluta.

Artigos e Entrevistas de Olavo de Carvalho  (pensadoresbrasileiros.home.comcast.net)

- Highlight Loc. 156-60  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 01:02 PM

Em suma : todos os códigos morais só podem ser compreendidos a partir da moralidade absoluta. Neste sentido, os grandes santos e mestres das várias tradições, uma vez tendo alcançado o estado supremo, podem inclusive transcender as formas contingentes da sua própria tradição (seja nos aspectos rituais ou morais), pois o absoluto é o ponto central da coincidentia oppositorum, onde as divergências dogmáticas se reabsorvem numa unidade superior. Como dizem os muçulmanos, "as divergências entre os doutores da religião também são uma dádiva da misericórdia divina".

não apenas relativa, mas relativista

Artigos e Entrevistas de Olavo de Carvalho  (pensadoresbrasileiros.home.comcast.net)

- Highlight Loc. 104-7  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:57 PM

Ora, a moralidade atual não é apenas relativa, como o foram todas as que antecederam, ela é relativista , o que é totalmente diferente. Ela não apenas tem um atributo de relatividade, como todas, mas funda-se na relatividade enquanto tal. As moralidades anteriores limitaram-se a aceitar a relatividade de fato , como fatalidade inevitável da condição humana. A moralidade atual deseja essa relatividade e a proclama como uma superioridade de jure, fazendo seu princípio e sua bandeira.

CAUSAS DO PROLONGAMENTO DAS RECESSÕES

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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In so far as any recession, having once begun, has become self-perpetuating or self-aggravating, that has not been due to successive cost and price reductions. It has been due to the opposite—(a) resistances to co-ordinative cost and price reductions and (b) entrepreneurial recognition of the unwillingness of governments to perform their “classical” task.

o "preço certo" dos salários depende da percepção do empresário

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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I conclude that Leijonhufvud has not, as he thinks, shown that “unemployment may persist even with the ‘right’ level” of money wage-rates, unless he means by “the right level” (in any employment) what I call “the wrong level” because it is not adjusted to current entrepreneurial assessments of profitability, right or wrong, and although the ultimate level may be destined to be much higher.

their apparent timidity in so-called slump periods was always a consequence of the price mechanism having been prevented from fulfilling its co-ordinative role.

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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My own diagnosis of the origins of entrepreneurial forecasts “attuned to a continuation of depression” differs from Leijonhufvud’s. During this century at least, that pessimism has been, I judge, far more often justified than unjustified. Thus, in the situation to be described on pp. 135-7, entrepreneurs confronted with the depression were reacting realistically to a situation in which (i) the toleration of private duress or collusion to bring about “wage-push,” or to maintain certain prices, and (ii) so-called “unemployment insurance” and other government action tending to render certain wage-rates or prices rigid, were frustrating rapid co-ordinative adjustments and exterminating prospective yields to investments, especially in such improvements of, or additions to, fixed capital as were subject to prospective strike-threat pressures. As a whole, entrepreneurs may not have clearly perceived the causes of the situation. But their apparent timidity in so-called slump periods was always, I suggest, a consequence of the price mechanism having been prevented from fulfilling its co-ordinative role.

A moral tem duas faces

Artigos e Entrevistas de Olavo de Carvalho  (pensadoresbrasileiros.home.comcast.net)

- Highlight Loc. 101-4  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:57 PM

A moral, por isso, sempre apresentou duas faces : uma absoluta, voltada para sua raiz na eternidade; outra relativa, reflexo da eternidade no tempo. O simplismo dos tempos modernos sempre sentiu esse paradoxo como insuportável, tentando liquidá-lo pela supressão de um dos termos, sistematicamente o primeiro deles.

the unemployed workers, although they have reduced their wage offer, have not reduced it sufficiently

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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the unemployed workers, although they have reduced their wage offer, have not reduced it sufficiently—in the light of unjustifiably pessimistic entrepreneurial expectations—to release their full potential contribution to supplies and hence to the source of demands. But when wage offers have been sufficiently adjusted for entrepreneurs generally to accept them, each output expansion is contributing to a state of affairs in which, through dynamic reactions set going, higher marginal prospective labor products will generally emerge and higher money wage-rates will be forced by the market.

walk in the middle of the street

What to Do When a Mugger Is Lurking  (lewrockwell.com)

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If you suspect someone is following you and you don't happen to have 50 billion on you and there are no 24 hours stores, doorman or anyone else in sight, walk in the middle of the street. You might catch the attention of a police car or taxi and muggers don't like the middle of the street.

What to Do When a Mugger Is Lurking (lewrockwell.com)

What to Do When a Mugger Is Lurking  (lewrockwell.com)

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If I am going to be in a city for awhile, I also hire a bunch of bodyguards. By that I mean I paper the regular homeless in my neighborhood with a dollar here and a dollar there. The homeless are very street savvy and they aren't going to let anything happen to one of their regulars. A shout out from a homeless person along the lines of, "Leave him alone, he's cool." will be respected by most muggers.

ensinando economia para assaltantes

What to Do When a Mugger Is Lurking  (lewrockwell.com)

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Once in downtown Los Angeles, after dark I was walking on Broadway headed to the Broadway Bar. If you know the area, it's not where the meek should tread. But I was there and in deep thought when I crossed the street where a black guy was standing. The man walked up to me and asked, "Hey, how come you aren't afraid of me?" The fact was I hadn't seen him and told him so: "Jeez, I didn't see you. Maybe if I had I would be...ah, I see lots of you guys in New York." This sort of disarmed him and he told me he was a mugger. Curious person that I am, I talked with him for about 20 minutes about mugging. He told me that he wanted to do something else, that it was dangerous and that a friend of his recently had a shotgun pulled on him. I explained how minimum wage laws were making it near impossible for him to get an entry level job. I wished him luck in his job pursuit and we moved on in different directions into the remainder of the night.

If your neighbor told you to trim your hedge or he will shoot you, would you describe him as civilized?

ndecision 2012: Why the Calamity?  (lewrockwell.com)

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Relationship backed and defined by force is called civilization? How is this so? If your neighbor told you to trim your hedge or he will shoot you, would you describe him as civilized? If he said he didn't want to work and that you should pay his rent, or else he has the authority to put you in jail, with what term would you define the relationship? "Civilized" does not come to mind.

In order to control, the aggressor must conquer one house at a time.

Indecision 2012: Why the Calamity?  (lewrockwell.com)

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It is often wondered how a society can defend itself against outside aggressors absent a centralized state providing such defense. I do not take the above quoted passage as the last word on this topic, (for example, Hoppe has edited a thorough book on the subject, "The Myth of National Defense") however an interesting idea is presented. Without a leader to defeat or co-opt, without central levers of command and control for the aggressor to assume, it becomes rather difficult for anyone to take power. This is quite an effective means of defense as it relates to an outside aggressor. In order to control, the aggressor must conquer one house at a time.

unplanned stock-piling

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

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any such unplanned stock-piling is a market signal to entrepreneurs to reduce the price and/or to transfer versatile resources (labor and assets) to the production of other things which have become relatively profitable.